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Letter to the dead Ankhiri (pLeiden I 371)

English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.

1.1–1.4

1.1

n ꜣḫ-jqr Ꜥnḫ-jr,j

To the excellent akh-spirit Ankhiri:

1.2

jri̯ =j jḫ r{r} =t m btꜣ[,w] pꜣ =t ḫpr m pꜣy sḫr.w bjn n,tj tw j:m =f

What wrong have I done against you, that you have brought about this evil state that I am in?

1.3

jri̯ =j jḫ r{r} =t

What have I done against you?

1.4

pꜣ jri̯.n pꜣj =t ḏi̯.t ḏr,t j:m =j jw bw jri̯ =j btꜣ[,w] r{r} =t

What you have done is to lay hands on me, though I had done no wrong against you.

Translator's note. A letter to a dead wife. Line 2: pꜣ=t ḫpr, 'your bringing about', is uncertain; the clause is literally 'your becoming in this evil state in which I am'.

The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open pLeiden I.371).